milspecgirl
Senior Member
just had to add mine in here- sd was left in a trunk at 18 months while mom went and partied and when she started crawling, mom would put her in the bathtub of hotel rooms where she was partying so she wouldn't get out. She thought this was perfectly acceptable - STUPID! CPS would definitely go nuts.Absolutely---and if I saw a kiddo sitting alone in acar for 10-15 minutes at a time, multiple times, I'd call CPS.I might do it even sooner depending on the age of the child. Good grief you can get in trouble in TX for leaving a dog alone in a car for an extended period of time. (Imagine what CPS would do about a kiddo). Then Mom would be in deep doo-doo and YOU could be too for having knowledge that this was going on.
What on earth is Mom thinking? Reminds me of a story I once heard while I was briefly living in MO about a woman. (And of course this is a more extreme case than this would be.) This woman liked the night life and couldn't afford a sitter. So she put the kids in their P.J.s, loaded them up in the car with pillows and blankets, and then left them alone in the car at the parking lot of her favorite watering hole.
She went into the bar and drank and danced until the bar closed. Her excuse was that the doors were locked and the kids were asleep, thus no problem. She lost her kiddos pretty fast to CPS for doing this. Another patron called immediately when they saw these poor kids in the car......
IF she insists on her time, tell her that until she can find a suitable solution, you will be sticking to the court order of weekends when hopefully she doesn't have to work. If it's going to happen on the weekends too, your only option would be to go there yourself and wait for her to leave the child and then call CPS and the police or call CPS and report what you have been told is going to happen and ask them to check it out.
You cannot withhold court ordered visitation time